Parathyroid planar img w/tomo spect at UPMC Jameson
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA · UPMC · · NPI 111471575
$1,657.80
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,763.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$241.95 with Highmark BCBS of PA vs $2,431.44 with National Provider Network — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Highmark BCBS of PA | Community Blue Medicare Advantage/Complete Blue Medicare Advantage/Freedom Blue Medicare Advantage/Security Blue Medicare Advantage/Together Blue Medicare Advantage | $241.95 | ↓ -85% |
| United Healthcare Community Plan for Families | PA CHIP/PA Medicaid | $256.53 | ↓ -85% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicaid | $294.26 | ↓ -82% |
| Aetna | Medicaid | $302.29 | ↓ -82% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Community HealthChoices (CHC)/Medicaid | $347.79 | ↓ -79% |
| Geisinger | Medicaid/CHIP | $371.81 | ↓ -78% |
| Aetna of PA | Medicare | $383.10 | ↓ -77% |
| United Healthcare | Medicare | $383.10 | ↓ -77% |
| Humana | Medicare | $383.10 | ↓ -77% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Managed Medicare | $399.27 | ↓ -76% |
| UPMC Health Plan | EPO Partners/Partners/Select | $400.03 | ↓ -76% |
| Highmark Wholecare (prev Gateway) | Medicare | $413.71 | ↓ -75% |
| AmeriHealth Caritas | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -75% |
| Cigna | Medicare | $413.75 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | Allwell Medicare Advantage DSNP/Medicare Advantage (Allwell by Wellcare) | $413.75 | ↓ -75% |
| PA Health & Wellness | PA Medicaid HMO | $455.89 | ↓ -73% |
| UPMC Work Partners | Workers Comp | $477.27 | ↓ -71% |
| Occunet | Commercial | $478.88 | ↓ -71% |
| UPMC Health Plan | Commercial | $754.68 | ↓ -54% |
| Cigna | Commercial | $945.00 | ↓ -43% |
| United Healthcare | Commercial | $1,016.78 | ↓ -39% |
| UPMC Health Plan | CHIP | $1,224.38 | ↓ -26% |
| Multiplan | PPO (inc. Auto and Worker's Compensation) | $2,072.25 | ↑ +25% |
| Humana | Commercial | $2,210.40 | ↑ +33% |
| National Provider Network | PPO | $2,431.44 | ↑ +47% |
| Tricare | East Region | not published by hospital | — |
| US Family Health Plan | Tricare Prime | not published by hospital | — |
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| UPMC Carlisle | Carlisle | $1,228.80 | $280.58 – $1,740.80 |
| UPMC Cole | Coudersport | $1,220.40 | $280.89 – $1,627.20 |
| UPMC Community Osteopathic | Harrisburg | $1,228.80 | $292.22 – $1,740.80 |
| UPMC Hamot | Erie | $1,884.60 | $237.76 – $546.54 |
| UPMC Hanover | Hanover | $1,228.80 | $292.22 – $614.19 |
| UPMC Lititz | Lititz | $1,228.80 | $292.22 – $617.50 |
| UPMC Memorial | York | $1,228.80 | $193.78 – $1,823.04 |
| UPMC Muncy | Muncy | $1,859.40 | $285.53 – $510.56 |